Food From My Frontier for the iPad!

If you are an iPad user, or are a soon-to-be iPad user, or you’re thinking of one day becoming an iPad user, or your mom’s sister’s husband’s brother’s wife is an iPad user, I am very happy to show you my new cookbook in ebook form.

I’ve played with the book. It’s absolutely awesome.

Here are some features:

* You can easily swipe through the whole cookbook section by section, or page by page.

* The step-by-step photographic tutorials are included in a widget, which you can flip through with a simple swipe of your finger.

* You can also choose to enlarge the steps in the tutorial and see them each as a full-screen photo with the text for the step written below.

* You can tap on any photo in the book (food, family, cow, dog, or otherwise) and enlarge it to full screen mode.

* There are five cooking videos in the book.

* I also include a video of my favorite cooking tools.

* And a playlist of songs I like to listen to while I’m cooking. It’s weird, I’ll warn you.

* I also include a playlist of movies I like to watch while I’m cooking.

This particular ebook edition of the new cookbook is a multi-touch book (meaning you can use your fingers to navigate the book in lots of different ways) and was created using the incredibly sleek iBooksAuthor app. It’s amazingly simple to use, fun to play with, easy to browse, and features bonus recipes, playlists and a few videos of me cooking some of the recipes in the book.

Here are some brief peeks.

Here’s the main recipe page. If you were to tap on the photo of the quiche, it would expand to full screen mode.

On the next page are the step-by-step photos, with the instructions below each one.

You just use your finger to swipe through each step.

You can keep the step-by-steps this size, which is definitely nice and readable.

Or you can tap it once to enlarge, then swipe through the full-screen photos and text one by one.

Here’s a screenshot of the full-screen mode with the instructions below.

And another…

And another. To flip through the steps, just swipe through the photos. Easy!

I am so excited about how the cookbook looks (and acts!) on the iBookAuthor format. It’s totally interactive, incredibly user friendly, and I really do think it’ll make cooking fun for those of you who either prefer electronic devices to hardcover cookbooks OR who want to try your hand at the whole digital device realm.